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Hog-Trough.
Patent for an improved and durable pig trough, one that stays clean and can be filled and eaten out of easily without wasting feed.
Date:
April 27, 1897
Creator:
Neill, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for a "trap designed to be placed around an ant-hill and adapted to capture ants leaving or returning to the ant-hill." (Lines 11-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 18, 1897
Creator:
Bond, William Beebe
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hitching Device.
Patent for "a hitching device which can be applied to a strap between its ends and which is freely adjustable back and forth upon the strap without wearing or injuring the strap in any manner and to form a hitching device which consists of two entirely separate and distinct pieces, thus doing away with all joints, pivots, or other connections, and the necessity for forming holes or perforations of any kind in the strap." (Lines 22-31) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 6, 1897
Creator:
King, Sandy & Myers, Marshall
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for Horseshoe.
Design patent for horseshoe with the flat lips projecting upwardly from the outer edge of the shoe and inwardly toward the center.
Date:
September 14, 1897
Creator:
Cooper, William M. & Cates, John Wesley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for "improvements in cotton-gins, and more particularly to that class of saw-gins in which the brush-cylinder is dispensed with and a combined suction-fan and doffer employed to remove the lint from the gin-saws; and the object is to simplify the construction and at the same time increase the effectiveness of this class of gins." (Lines 11-18)
Date:
September 28, 1897
Creator:
Heffner, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Revolving Fan
Patent for a new and useful revolving fan. This design "relates to certain improvements in revolving fans, such as are employed especially in connection with tables and the like for fanning the persons seated thereat" (line 8-11).
Date:
December 14, 1897
Creator:
Gibson, Levi A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Ant-Trap.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in ant-traps.
Date:
April 12, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combination-Tool.
Patent for a new and useful combination tool, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 31, 1898
Creator:
Karner, Joseph C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Stretching Wire Or Other Purposes.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in machines for stretching wire or other purposes, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 21, 1898
Creator:
Selvidge, Charles W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Folding Camp-Bed.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in folding camp beds, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Long, Reuben
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Thill-Coupling.
Patent for a new and useful thill coupling for "locking the thill-iron to the attached thill in a raised position" (line 8 -9).
Date:
September 27, 1898
Creator:
James, Will S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a certain new and useful wire stretcher, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
November 28, 1899
Creator:
Hancock, Benjamin Columbus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Index.
Patent for a certain new and useful index, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
December 12, 1899
Creator:
Hall, Henry Lyons
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sash-Fastener.
Patent for a new and useful sash fastener, which is "capable of holding a sash at any desired adjustment and of being arranged to lock the sashes against vertical movement on each other" (line 13 - 14).
Date:
February 13, 1900
Creator:
James, Will S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gin-Saw Cleaner.
Patent for a cleaner for cotton-gin saws for "an improved construction of cleaner adapted to be used in connection with saw-cylinders on different kinds of gins" (lines 10-13) and "which may be easily fitted and held securely in position in a detachable manner" (lines 18-19).
Date:
April 24, 1900
Creator:
Bolen, Walter M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hame Attachment
Patent for improved Hame Attachment with "snap hame-hook" (line 11) "preventing accidental displacement." (line 13-14)
Date:
June 26, 1900
Creator:
Dobbs, William, Jackson
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Artificial Stone.
Patent for a process of manufacturing artificial stone in which “it will not cracked by reason of exposure and which may be readily engraved, impressed or otherwise marked to form letters, characters, emblems and etc….” (Lines 16-20). No illustration.
Date:
August 28, 1900
Creator:
Johnson, Jesse W. & Hendrix, Albert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churning Machine.
Patent for a churning machine that includes illustration and description of machine parts.
Date:
July 2, 1901
Creator:
McDaniel, Bill Homer
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Fence Tool.
Patent for wire fence tool attachment for a wire stretching machine. The tool can also perform other operations related to the fence wires when detached from the machine.
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Pearson, C. E.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher
Patent for a wire-stretcher designed to repair wire fences manually.
Date:
October 22, 1901
Creator:
Pearson, Charles Ewell
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gage for Plows.
Patent for a new type of gage for a running plow, that can be adjusted for a specific depth
Date:
December 17, 1901
Creator:
Wilson, William H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
PENCIL HOLDER
Patent for a pencil holder that may be attached to a garment.
Date:
January 14, 1902
Creator:
PEARSON, JOHN WILLIAM
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bedstead Brace.
Patent for a new and useful bedstead-brace. "This invention is an improved construction of bedstead-brace, the object being to provide an exceedingly cheap, simple, and efficient device which can be applied to any and all beds" (line 7-11).
Date:
January 21, 1902
Creator:
Campbell, Ike W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt-Holder.
Patent for improvements in bolt-holders by “providing a combined bolt-holder and screw-driver…. in which the hook or engaging member is quickly and conveniently adjustable to any angle to allow the tool to be employed in various positions to engage bolts set.” (Lines 15-22) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 25, 1902
Creator:
Carter, Hiram C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History